A big box arrived while I was at work… It contained a survival kit with seat cushion, overhead pull handle/curtain, and both parachute containers for the incomplete ejection seat. My kids really like playing in the box!

I was able to lower the bucket on the pilot’s seat and set them up side by side within 2″ directionally.  It is quite an acrobatic feat to get to the pilot’s seat but once you are there you have sufficient legroom and ample headroom.

While sawing down a platform support, a beam I had paced on top of the frame (to get it out of the way) worked it’s way loose and fell on one of the LCD monitors!



Edit:  I was able to remove the actual LCD monitor from inside this bloated frame and housing.  This outer sheet was for the touchscreen capability which we don’t need anyway.

Ultimately I had to use my wife’s laptop running Windows XP to get this thing out of hardware programming mode.  I used the following steps from tech@xkeys.com:

Download and install Macro_Recorder.  This installs XkeysW2k.sys in the C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder which will be necessary when you plug in the USB device in programming mode.  You will have to specify the location when the Found New Hardware wizard pops up.

Download and install Splat_Converter.  Launch it, hit “Get Mode” and then say “SPLAT”.  Your device will no longer be recognized but you can take it back to Windows 7 running MacroWorks 3 and start programming.

So were waiting for Martin Baker to get back to us with the pin-out for the bucket actuator.  The bucket is too high and therefore it’s hard to tell about the positioning and ergonomics.

I need measurements for the platform on the left side and locations to tie into studs.  We need the location of the two overhead studs done for the overhead monitor.  I guess I need some more dimensions in the plans that I drop for the door in the back.

To get this application working I had to add the following to my .htaccess file:

<Files xmlrpc.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>


I also had to make sure under…

Settings -> Writing -> Remote Publishing

Check that XML-RPC was enabled. Otherwise I was getting HTTP error 412 “Precondition Failed” which led me to this thread (thanks guys).

I also had trouble posting and seeing pages until I installed this plugin.

Finally, I couldn’t access the “Stats” until I installed the Jetpack cloud integration with wordpress.com.